Elon Musk's Gulfstream G800 N8628 lands at Mesa Gateway from Austin

Elon Musk's Gulfstream G800, tail number N8628, flew from Austin Bergstrom International Airport to Mesa Gateway Airport on Monday, November 2, 2026. The aircraft departed Austin at 02:15 UTC and landed in Mesa at 04:15 UTC, spending 2 hours in the air.

The great-circle distance between the two airports is 737 nautical miles, or 848 miles. The aircraft averaged a ground speed of 368 knots and reached a highest altitude of 47,025 feet. The Gulfstream G800 is an ultra long range jet with a range of 8,200 nautical miles, a top speed of Mach 0.935, and a ceiling of 51,000 feet. It typically seats 12 passengers and entered service in 2025. The flight burned an estimated 962 US gallons of fuel, producing about 9,238 kilograms of CO2, roughly the same as driving a car 22,865 miles.

This was the first landing at Mesa by any of Elon Musk's five aircraft in the tracked window from October 21 to November 2, 2026. Elon Musk's home base is Austin Bergstrom International Airport. In the 30 days before this flight, his aircraft visited 18 airports in two countries and flew about 21,775 nautical miles. The most common destinations in that window were Los Angeles, Austin, and San Jose.

Mesa Gateway Airport is located in the Phoenix metropolitan area. There is no public event or company announcement tied to Elon Musk or his organizations at this airport on this date.

The aircraft had been on the ground for about 10 days before this flight, since its previous tracked landing at Austin on October 22. The Gulfstream G800 is the newest jet in Musk's fleet, delivered in February 2025.

The flight used only 9% of the G800's range. The aircraft reached a top ground speed of 497 knots. Austin Bergstrom International Airport has a longest runway of 12,250 feet at an elevation of 542 feet. Mesa Gateway Airport's longest runway is 10,401 feet at an elevation of 1,382 feet. The distance from the home base on file to the arrival airport is 738 nautical miles.

In the tracked window from October 21 to November 2, 2026, all five of Elon Musk's aircraft made 34 flights. The most common destinations were Los Angeles with 8 landings, Austin with 6, and San Jose with 6. The longest leg in that period was a 1,410-nautical-mile flight from Perryville to Los Angeles on October 31, flown by the Gulfstream G550 N272BG.

On the same day as the Mesa flight, another of Musk's aircraft, the Gulfstream G650ER N628TS, flew from Los Angeles to Austin in 1 hour 44 minutes covering 953 nautical miles, and later made a 16-minute local flight from Austin to Austin. The day before, on November 1, N628TS flew from Austin to San Jose in 3 hours 12 minutes over 1,282 nautical miles, then from San Jose to Los Angeles in 52 minutes.